Posts Tagged ‘porsche’
For the last 2 months, I’ve been whining and complaining on our forums about how boring the 996 Turbo is. Monday night, after our first dusting of snow on the roads, I take it all back. But first, let’s go over the progress of our 911 Turbo winterization program.
Intro: Porsche 911 Turbo, the Ultimate Winter Car
Our first modification was a set of winter tires provided by Integra Tire on MacLeod Trail. Due to the 996’s AWD system, there’s only a small number of winter tires that fit the 996 Turbo. We choose a set of Hankook Icebear W300’s, 225/40R18 up front and 265/35R18 out back. These tires have average grip in snow and ice, but grips well on cold dry pavement, which is a great compromise for Calgary’s winters. Because the 265’s require a 10″ rear wheel (factory rear wheel is 11″ wide), a new set of winter wheels were required, and was provided by Kulu Motorcar.
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Porsche 911 Turbo, the Ultimate Winter Car
I’m a Mercedes-Benz guy, have been for the last decade. It comes as a surprise, even to myself, that I ended up back where I started, behind the wheel of a Porsche. My first real sports car was a Porsche 944 Turbo, which I owned since high school, and drove to it’s grave 5 years ago with a hole in the block of the heavily modified engine. I missed her while she was gone, for a few months anyways. Looking back, with all the money that I spent, and the toxic love/hate relationship that I had with the car, I vowed not to get back into a Porsche again.
And here I am today, with a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo sitting in my garage, a month away from winter. You’ve all seen those Porsche Everyday commercials. This is supposed to be the ultimate winter car. I’ve read about it, heard about it from other owners that winter drive their 911’s in the winter, and see them on the road, which made me curious… is it really the Ultimate Winter Car?
With that being said, here’s the introduction to our 911 Turbo, Ultimate Winter Car series. Let’s take a look at the car that we’ve aquired:
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This was my car only three weeks ago. The photos I took while the $177,125 car was in my care sit as my current desktop.
But the car suffered the nightmare every auto writer fears. The Globe and Mail’s Peter Cheney was being a responsible steward of the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo and parked it in his garage.
I know, I know, this wasn’t the wisest thing to do, but it’s Porsche’s fault - actually I blame the new Cayenne Turbo.
In Germany for the launch of the third-generation of the SUV, I found myself with funny-guy Russ Bond, a freelance writer and racing nut, and ever-talkative Jim Kenzie of the Toronto Star, as well as Porsche Canada PR manager Laurance Yap.
German sports car maker Porsche said Tuesday it was recalling all its 11,324 newly launched four-door Panamera cars due to possible seatbelt problems.
A spokesman said the precautionary recall was because seatbelt mounts on the Panamera, launched in September 2009, could fail when the front seats are adjusted in an extreme forward position.
The German luxury car maker Porsche said on Wednesday that has paid down nearly half its mountain of debt but that it expects to suffer a net loss in its current fiscal year.
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get enough of the Porsche 918 Spyder that debuted at Geneva Motor Show this week.
This car is beyond fascinating, technically brilliant, beautiful sculpted, no doubt the next great car from Porsche.
No doubt part of Porsche’s plan from the onset, with emissions ratings and penalties being what they are, the new Panamera Gran Turismo four-door will soon “sport” a six-cylinder variant.
The new model, simply named Panamera, whereas the V8 keeps its Panamera S and S4 monikers and top-line version continues as the Panamera Turbo, features a 3.6-litre direct-injection V6 good for an impressive 300hp and 295 lb-ft of torque, which is up 10hp and 22 lb-ft of torque over the current base Cayenne V6; likely the 2011 Cayenne will get the same updates to its base-level V6.
VW 1.4L TSI - International Engine of The Year
The 1.4L twin-charged TSI motor earned 354 points (just 4 more than BMW’s 3.0L Twin Turbo) to capture the Engine of The Year award for 2009. The VW victory prevented a 3 year sweep of the award by BMW and comes at a perfect time as many people are increasingly looking for smaller engines with better fuel economy. The engine also took home the award for Green Engine of the Year and won the 1.0L to 1.4L category.
International Engine of The Year
Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI Twincharger (VW Golf, Touran, Tiguan, Jetta)
Best New Engine of The Year
Porsche 3.8-litre flat six (911)
Green Engine of The Year
Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI Twincharger (VW Golf, Touran, Tiguan, Jetta)
Best Performance Engine
Mercedes-AMG 6.2-litre (CLK, S, SL, CL, CLS, ML)
Sub 1L
Toyota 1-litre 3-cylinder (Aygo,Yaris/Echo/Vitz, Citroën C1, Peugeot 107, Subaru Justy)
1.0L - 1.4L
Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI Twincharger (VW Golf, Touran, Tiguan, Jetta)
1.4L - 1.8L
BMW-PSA 1.6-litre Turbo (MINI Cooper S, Clubman, Peugeot 207, 308)
1.8L - 2.0L
Audi 2-litre TFSI (Audi A4, A5, Q5, VW Scirocco, Golf GTI)
2.0L - 2.5L
Mercedes-Benz Diesel 2.1-litre (BlueEfficiency E-Class & C-Class)
2.5L - 3.0L
BMW 3-litre Twin Turbo (135, 335, X6, Z4, 730)
3.0L - 4.0L
BMW 4-litre V8 (M3)
4.0L+
Mercedes-AMG 6.2-litre (CLK, S, SL, CL, CLS, ML)
For a complete write up on each of the categories, click here.
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